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From: rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Vi Turing machine question
Keywords: vi
Message-ID: <1570@agora.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 15:36:05 GMT
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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First, I thought that the Turing machine simulation in vi is clever -
a real tour de force.

When I tried it on MKS vi (I would give you a version number if their
documentation gave one), however, it bombed.  Upon investigation,
it is the 

map k ^V|D

(where ^V is the control V character)
line that is causing trouble.  Then, I tried it from inside unix vi (instead
of :so).  No luck.  Even with 'remap' set, unix vi gives the message I
got from MKS - 'missing rhs'.

What gives here?

Another question -
what's the easiest way to globally append/insert text on the
end/beginning  of lines?
I don't know how to do it in vi at all - and in ex it's clumsy.



Rick Coates
Consulting H/W - S/W engineer
(Graphics - Sun - Unix - ASIC design - imbedded systems)

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